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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are the buildbots essentially green now? One of them reports green
while the others have timed out.

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Anders


On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:18:12AM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>
>
> On 03/02/11 22:57, Marie E. Rognes wrote:
> >
> > On 3. feb. 2011, at 22:21, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> [\snip]
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?
> >>
> >
> > How about some or all of these:
> >
> > 1. Not introducing separate developer branches
> >
> > 2. Establishing a subset of tests that take a few minutes to run, so that we actually bother to run a set of tests before pushing to the main branch
> >
>
> On my computer, the tests are pretty fast. Building the C++ demos is
> slow because the test won't build in parallel (using -jX doesn't help
> when building tests). Maybe Johannes could look at this?
>
> > 3. Making the test script more intelligent so that only the tests affected by the changes in code are run
> >
> > 4. Focusing on separating larger changes out into feature-branches (as before instead of personal-developer-branches)
> >
>
> We didn't really do point 4 consistently before. For me, the idea is to
> do more or what is suggested under point 4, but rather than registering
> a new branch every time I work on something I have a permanent 'sandbox'
> that I'm free to break.
>
> My take is that it's fine for the code in personal repositories to fail
> the tests, which is inevitable when implementing bigger changes. What it
> should do is avoid the problem that we've had when the buildbot is red
> for days or weeks - one things breaks the buildbot, and before it's
> fixed a bunch of other problems have been introduced.
>
> Garth
>
> >> Is here a way to merge via (A)?
> >>
> >>
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